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Ten of Twenty-One A new year...12 months, 365 days, 8.760 hours, 525,600 minutes, 31,536,000 seconds. A time to consider directions, goals, and reflect on what actions to take. I must make some plans to live a normal life, but I also must live emotionally within a twenty-four-hour-frame. I can decide, "Today I will do this...Today I will do that." Each day I can measure my life by trying to do a little better, by deciding to make a effort to change. Somehow during the passage of tim...

h i Cja^ 4993 W o r d Essay At the age of sixteen I was incarcerated for First Degree Murder and later sentenced to 77-years in prison. There seemed to be httle consideration of the affects it would have on a teenager to be housed with adults. Fortunately for me I was a fighter. There is a strange unwritten rule in prison that if somebody is willing to stick up for himself from day one then other prisoners will be willing to help him. If you don't stand up for yourself then you are left ...

66 Days Later Frederick Mason USP Tucson #55487-056 PO Box 24550 Tucson, AZ 85734 The date is August 10th, 2016, 66 days after the incident on Memorial Day Weekend, Sunday, June 5th. I've chronicled various times after the incident in which I accused Officer D. Huffstuttler of discriminating against black inmates. I voiced my concern and contempt of the situation that very night, to see if the prison would fairly and honestly address this issue. And it is of great importance that they do...

"7" Thing Bill Clinton Did for African American Communities By: Honest Willie Worley Jr, Prison Intelligence Cartoonist/Journalist Every once in awhile there comes along a political figure that possess the ability to seduce the masses. Their approach is as smooth as water energizing everyone with a false sense of hydration. We thirst for this political hydration, and before dehydration can kick in, the crinch our political thirst with seductive politics. Bill Clinton was the master ...

7My voice through the prison walls By: Inmate Ricky Vincent Pendleton II ^ ^ i O l ^ \j I think rehabilitation is a propaganda word used by the lawmakers to cover their motives exploiting the inmates in a business venture. The whole prison industry is a "for profit" industry; from my reading is a billion dollars industry. How am I supposed to cope in here and seeing the corrupt acts of people...? I have to control the things in my life. Rehabilitation is on the individual prisoner, ...

Not only do prisoners being release from North Carolina prisons have an obligation to utilize their voting rights, and encouraging their family and friends to do the same. They also have a very special election that is mandatory to their well being. "Judicial election." Approximately a week before North Carolina prisoners are released, their city or county law enforcement, are aware of the prisoners release. At this point the ex-felon becomes prey to a racial criminal justice system...

Michael Arreyene S.V.S.P. California A Bad Year Any year in prison could be considered a bad year, but for me the past year has been a bad year. Although it is far from the worst because things could always be worse, for instance I probably could not be able to write these thoughts or even be around. By no means do I intend to be morbid, but as we all view the best/worse case scenario this is mine. My bad year began in August 2014 and it came out of nowhere and knocked me out like a suckerpun...

A brand new beginning awaits us all By Darrell Sharpe, MA The windows here at the MCI Norfolk Prison-Security Housing unity extend from floor to ceiling, about eight feet high. They're only five inches wide-impossible for anyone to escape through, and the glass is clear. That surprised me. Most segregation units I've landed in have cell windows that are completely frosted over from the outside, making it impossible to look through them. But here at MCI Norfolk we have lots of beauti...

A Concise History of the Prisoners' Rights Movement: An Epic Struggle for Human Dignity Those who ignore the past are doomed to repeat it. Historian's maxim. After visiting Pennsylvania's Eastern State Penitentiary in 1842 Charles Dickens wrote, "The system is rigid, strict and hopeless...and I believe it to be cruel and wrong....I hold this slow and daily tampering with the mysteries of the [mind] to be immeasurably worse than any torture of the body." Eastern State ...

A Convicts Prayer Oh God please hear this convicts plea And continue to lay your hands heavily upon me For shive and shank equals my rod and staff But if death should call, will you intercede on my behalf Will you touch my spirit and hold my soul Keep me program enrolled and eligible for parole Take me off the docket of any further days in court While at the same time keeping me secluded from the disciplinary reports Make my environment safe and friendly Whether at a level five state prison o...

"A Criminal End" By: Mr. Tracy "Hollywood" Glenn March 25th 2D1h Prison has a way of sometimes helping one find another path, one that is seemingly reachable that one could not see beforehand from the offense that has one there locked away. If I were to tell you this correspondence is being written by one man who has at 50 years of age no high school diploma or B.E.D. could you believe it? Prison for me today is demoralizing and it has no place in my efforts to fulfill in ...

No Title A day before my 18th birthday I was arrested in Milwaukee WI for possession with intent to deliver. I was sentenced to 9 years under the Wisconsin Truth in Sentencing Act. The judge ordered me to do 3 years inside and 6 years on mandatory supervision. Most of the 3 years was spent at the Robert E. Ellsworth Correctional Center (R.E.E.C.C.). At REECC I obtained my HSED in 2002. To get into the Office Assistant college course through Gateway Tech, I had to steal a cookie. My being empl...

A Day in the Life of Time My name is Eric. I was born and raised in St.Louis, but for the past 34 years I have been in prison in Missouri. I have been in the South East Correctional Center at Charleston, Missouri for seven years now. When I was 21, I was sentenced to 50 years without the possibility of parole for killing a young man who was trying to rob my younger brother. I did not have a prison record. Very few people have any idea what it is like to be incarcerated for decades. Here is wh...

"A GAY MAN IN PRISON" First of all, I want to start off by letting you know something about my- self. I am a gay male serving time in federal prison, I will be here until the date of March 17, 2019, unless the laws change and I get some relief, or if I get clemency form the President of the United States. Since I do not see the later two items happening in a way that will benefit me, then I am counting on the March 2019 date. Life in a federal prison for a gay man is not as good as ...

A Lesson in Language Incarceration has forced me to postpone my plans of travelling to the continents of Europe and Asia. Six years into a twenty year sentence for manslaughter, watching Globe Trekker on PBS or flipping through vacation mags in the prison library is the closest I get. My travels into Quebec and Mexico taught me that every street sign, television or radio program, menu, and all product packaging provides a lesson in language. Simply going about a regular routine in a foreign l...

A Letter to Law-Enforcement Executives My name is Willie Worley Jr. I consider myself a servant of the people as the minister of Self-Defense of National Intelligence for African American Communities 3rd Party Black Panthers. Since my reign I have made it my number one goal to point to the facts of the many dysfunctions that plague our communities both African and caucasian Americans. I have focused on the causes of the social derangements that has effected our nations racial communication li...

I wish you could be witness to the enrichment and achievement, the intellectual stimulation, and the soulful creative expression going on during the Prison Performing Arts theater and "spoken word" poetry classes in WERDCE, the women's prison in Vandalia, MO and Thursdays and in the men's prison down the road in Bowling Green, MO, on Fridays. PPA is a non-profit organization based in St.Louis, MO, which provides opportunities for personal growth and character development t...

Robert Taliaferro, 150555 JCI P.O. Box 233 Black River Falls, WI 54615-0233 A.MODEL OF FUTILITY: The PLRA and Wisconsin's Inmate Complaint System by Robert E. Taliaferro, Jr. Introduction In 1996 Congress passed the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) in response to a few highly publicized--but isolated and over—exaggerated--instances of prisoner abuse of the judicial process. The PLRA was designed as a tool to curb those abuses by making it more diffi- cult for prisoners to seek judicia...

Hughes 638 Mr. Ronald (Rashawn) Hughes 92A2940 Clinton Correctional Facility P.O. Box 2000 Dannemora, New York 12929 A More Perfect Union! When you make an observation, you have an obligation. These are words that I try to live by. It's what encouraged this article and hopefully what will inspire the commissioners' on the parole board to open their hearts, minds, and understand that people are capable of changing. In preparation for my December 2010 parole interview, I found myself ...

A Prison E-mail to Recreation Frederick Mason USP Tucson #55487-056 PO Box 24550 Tucson, AZ 85734 The following is an e-mail I sent to the Recreation Supervisor following an event that happened on Memorial Day Weekend (2 016) on Sunday. At the point I am sharing this, several things have happened, and I expect a few more before things are resolved... if they are at all. What I am trying to share here is that often times, things happen that are not the inmate's fault. Sometimes officers h...

SHAWANGUNK JOURNAL Inside The Box www.shawangunkjournal.com A By Matthew Hattley 0 Parole Decision: The Breakdown Every person receiving an “inde- terminate” sentence will automati— ‘ cally be scheduled to see the Parole Board—- usually four months prior to completing their minimum term. Re- gardless of which prison they are at when this date arrives, a hearing will be conducted. . S . This is the average parole deci- sion: “Denied — Hold For 24 Months: Next Appearance Date...’_’ More than 70...

A Rebuttal to: "A Day On San Duentin's Death Roy" By: Dames P. Anderson--January 17, 2016 (A/C) Allow me to suggest that readers first visit the, "PACIFICSUM.COM" (January 6-12, 2016) website and reviey the article, "A Day On San Quentin's Death Row" in order to obtain a perspective for this rebuttal. As a wrongly convicted and ^ actually innocent death row prisoner of over thirty five (35) years, I simply couldn't allow the Pacific Sun article to ...